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I Just Let Life Rain Down on Me: selected letters and reflections of Rahel Levin Varnhagen

Selected and translated and with a foreword by Peter Wortsman. Forthcoming from Seagull Books, Kolkata, India, June 2024
https://www.seagullbooks.org/i-just-let-life-rain-down-on-me/

The translator and fiction writer Peter Wortsman places this story [“The Singing Bone”] toward the start of the admirable Archipelago Selected Tales of the Brothers Grimm and follows it with “The Tale of the Juniper Tree.” You can hear the translator's dark glee under the bird's warbling...

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